WWW dev

Firefox Developer Edition

Firefox has been my favourite web browser when doing web development. The reason is that there are very many useful add-ons that help debuging web pages. For example Firebug gives a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse: You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web →

Celebrating 10 Years of Firefox

Firefox web browser is 10 years old so Mozilla is Celebrating 10 Years of Firefox. As part of our anniversary, Mozilla excited to announce a special release of Firefox with new features that put you in control. We’ve also added a new Forget feature to Firefox: gives you an easy way to tell Firefox to →

HTML5 is now a W3C Recommendation

Developers, browser vendors and the press have been talking about HTML5 for many years. In reality, however, HTML5 has been flux for a long time. But just yesterdays W3C Declares HTML5 Standard Complete as W3C today published its Recommendation of HTML5 — the final version of the standard after years of adding features and making changes →

WordPress backups

I mentioned in my Blogging security tips that backups are very important. Backing up is one of the most important things to do when running a website. There are so many things that can go wrong. Especially if you’ve been blogging for years, you really cannot afford to loose all that data that you’ve worked →

Netscape Navigator turned 20

Netscape Navigator – the browser that started it all – turns 20 article tells that it was 20 years ago today, Marc Andreeesen taught the band to play: Netscape Navigator, the browser credited with taking the World Wide Web into the mainstream, was released twenty years ago yesterday, on October 13th 1994. The anniversary celebrated →

Blogging security tips

I get every now and then comments on the WordPress like this: “I’m getting fed up of WordPress because I’ve had problems with hackers and I’m looking at options for another platform.” My comments to those is normally that I use WordPress platform. WordPress is a good platform when you configure it correctly, remember backup →

Spam protection added to comments

I have added spam protection added to comments. Instead of various CAPTCHA based solutions I ended up using simpler and maybe even less annoying math based spam protection. Math Comment Spam Protection asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human →